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Teaching with Technologytechnology for the classes
‘technology’, as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is ‘stuff that doesn’t work yet.’ We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs.
What is technology?
Why doesn’t it work?
Features
Features
Featur
es
Features
Features
Features
80/20
pick your 20
Social reasons why technology “doesn’t
work”
Language
Jargon
hashtag
firmware
bitco
incro
wdsourc
e
heartbleedsnapchat
chro
meb
ook doge
sock
-pup
petIoT
Digital Natives
Pidgin vs Creole
Are you a digital native? Are your students?
you can “immigrate” to the digital world
Access
Digital Divide
• Access to technology • Access to internet • Access to knowledge • Producers vs consumers
How’s your access?
How does your student’s access differ?
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• from yours? • from each other?
http://www.pearsoned.com/research/prek-12-research/
http://www.pearsoned.com/research/prek-12-research/
•http://shar.es/PZwnu, re:fuel's 2013 College Explorer Study via globalnewswire
Takeaway: Tech is now embedded in
student’s lives, and in learning.
Takeaway: 15% of college students
do not own a laptop, 31% do not own a smartphone
Technology !
Mobile? Laptop?
Let’s make a list: What is Technology
Is technology the solution or the problem?
Chicken and Egg
Let’s make a list: What problems do you
want technology to solve
Students
Teacher
More
Less
More Less
TECH USAGE
Lecture
note taking
PPT
blended
interactive exercises
Apps
Online courses
AppsApps
Apps
Let’s make a list: What scares you about
technology
HOW TO GET HELP WITH TECHNOLOGY
Don’t pretend to know
Also: Don’t expect students to know
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(The Paradox of Familiarity)
Focus on the job you want technology to do
for you
Be prepared
Be prepared for failure
“ You're all fourth year CS
students. You should know that computers are
dumb and stupid and broken all the time.
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Backups
Let’s make a list: How has technology
failed you?
Does it make you less likely to try it again?
Things we want Technology to do for us:
Student Engagement
Remote Engagement
Communication
Teaching concepts
Student Assessment
Learner-directed education
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Customized lesson plans
Problems we have with technology:
intimidation
preparedness
distraction
murphy
Powerpoint
CS 280 Lecture 2.1: Communicating 63
Part 1: How to make a bad presentation
!Low-contrast text !Distracting backgrounds !44pt 32pt 24pt 18pt 12pt Small text
!Cheesy Animation that distracts from the point
!paragraphs that go on and on in fonts that are hard to read, animated in in such a way that you can't read the whole thing right away but must wait for it to slowly march in, and you are distracted trying to read it so you don't pay attention to what the person is saying, even though they are just going to read the paragraph to you as you read it to yourself making the presenter redundant.
!Sound effects
Break these rules where appropriate
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but be intentional
World War II
Call of Duty (7) !
Medal of Honor (12) !
Battlefield (2) !
Wolfenstein (4) !
Brothers In Arms (6)
!!!!!!!!!
Hidden & Dangerous (2)
!Day of Defeat
(2) World War II Combat (2)
!Deadly Dozen
(2)
!Battlestrike (5)
!Silent Service Silent Service II
Mortyr Mortyr 2: ForEver
World War II Online D-‐Day:
Normandy WW2: GI
World War II Sniper: Call to
Victory
Airborne Troops:
Countdown to D-‐Day
Combat Elite: WWII
Paratroopers Sniper Art of
Victory Sniper Elite
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-‐45
History Channel's
ShootOut! The Game
The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific
Hour of Victory 1944 D-‐Day: Operation Overlord Beyond
Normandy: Assignment
Berlin Airborne Hero D-‐day Frontline
Call of Duty (7) !
Medal of Honor (12) !
Battlefield (2) !
Wolfenstein (4) !
Brothers In Arms (6)
3 kinds of information: • your notes • slides • handout = paper
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THESE ARE ALL DIFFERENT
Edward Tufte: “Powerpoint is evil”
Presentations largely stand or fall on the quality, relevance, and integrity of the content. If your numbers are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant. Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm. Yet the PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content. Thus PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play -very loud, very slow, and very simple.
The practical conclusions are clear. PowerPoint is a competent slide manager and projector. But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it. Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience. !
edward tuft. “powerpoint is evil” wired, September 2003
Content is Key !
So let’s talk content
Animations
Find animations
Build animations
CS327/827 4. Psychoacoustics
Noise Floor, e.g. 70db
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CS201 2.Digital Logic
Parallel Adder
•Put the full adder in a box:
XY
CinS
Cout
X Y Cout Cin
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X3 Y3 X2 Y2 X1 Y1 X0 Y0
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X Y Cout Cin
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X Y Cout Cin
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X Y Cout Cin
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X Y Cout Cin
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S3 S2 S1 S0S4
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Build videos, screencasts !
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=71DnOYeqJuM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Comparison_of_screencasting_software
Online content - images -youtube
sxc.hu
youtube.com/...www.
youtube.com/...www.ss
Aside: Copyright
Messy, difficult, possibly evil
Ask!
Open education, open content
Powerpoint Alternative: !
Kinetic Typography
Any questions about powerpoint and sharing
content?
CMS !
Course/Content Management
Software/System
LMS !
Learning Management
Software/System
Which CMS/LMS do you use?
CMS/LMS
•Notes
•Assignment activities
• Forum
•Wiki
•Group work
•Quiz
Quiz
Problem: !
Finding and writing good quiz questions is hard
Problem: !
Once you put something online, it’s there forever
Solution 1: !
Prevent students from copying and distributing
quiz questions
How?
Solution 2: !
Turn a problem into an opportunity
Students write their own quiz questions
Student questions
•Great way to study
•Competition between students
•best get picked for the “real” quiz
• advantage if yours get picked
•helps me see what people think is hard
In-Class CMS Quiz
In-Class Quiz
•Engage BYOD
• Instant feedback
•Discuss, as a class, difficult and easy questions
• can be used for polling, voting, whatever
•Can assign grades
In-Class Quiz
•Practice when it doesn’t matter
•Have paper copies
• Stagger quiz start
• I learned this the hard way
•plan for failure
CMS alternatives
Live Class Polls
•www.polleverywhere.com
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•PollEv.com/drgrd
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•people can respond online, or text their responses.
Quizzes / exams / surveys
•Google Docs
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•Survey Monkey
Wikis / blogs
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_hosting_services
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•weebly
BYOD
Laptops, Tablets, Smartphones
Using Laptops In Classrooms Lowers
Grades: Study !
http://www.yorku.ca/ncepeda/laptopFAQ.html
Laptops = bad
•Lecture in meterology
•half were asked to complete a series of unrelated tasks
•meant to mimic what distracted students might do
In Classrooms Lowers
Grades?
Using Laptops
In Classrooms Lowers
Grades!
Being Distracted
BYOD
•Make sure students aren’t distracted
•Remember tufte?
•Give them something to use their devices for
• google it for me
• Shame
My Rules for BYOD
•If a phone rings in class, I answer it
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•If I suspect you of doing something other than classwork on your laptop, I’ll plug it into the projector
Other things
•Cheating
•Online culture
•apps and social media
• twitter, facebook, linkedin
•A later talk in your program
Don’t forget your dongle!